Week 11 - Portugal F4 - Quinta do Lago ($15,000) (hard)

brendan · Strong Club Player

RE: Week 11 - Portugal F4 - Quinta do Lago ($15,000) (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

brendan wrote:
with all the rain they've had lately no wonder they have 5 lakes

If you're alluding to what you think is the meaning of the name of the place, you're way off beam: yes, lago means "lake", but the noun quinta means "piece of land" or "farm" or "country estate", especially in one of Portugal's wine-producing regions, so Quinta do Lago could be (very loosely) translated as "Lake Estate" or "Lake Farm". A quick glance at the map would seem to indicate that there is one lake in the area. The Portuguese for "five" is the same as in Spanish, cinco (though pronounced differently). Quinta, the adjective (the feminine form of quinto), means "fifth".

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

brendan wrote:
with all the rain they've had lately no wonder they have 5 lakes

Well, cutting some linguistic slack, it made me smile, Brendan smile

paulisi · Tennis legend

Well done to Jack on claiming the doubles title.

Warm down and nip over to play qualifying singles.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And we have another :

Final: Peter Bothwell (IRL) & Jack Findel-Hawkins CR 1733 (603+1130) defeated (4) Francisco Cabral & Tiago Cação (POR/POR) CR 1428 (405+1023) by 7-6(5) 7-6(3)

Oakland2002 · All-time great

I am not surprised Jack was an elite doubles player in college even as a freshman he knocked out the top seeds from USC in the first round of the NCAA tournament and that was just the start!

But you can see how he ended up in the ASUN with a JCH of 910 Due more to lack of opportunity than ability perhaps? i.e. His rank was based on Points scored in just two tournaments (the only two he had played that year.

He played the grade 4 in Nottingham annually until his final year when there were back to back grade 4's in Nottingham he won both doubles (one was a walk over in the final) and got to the QF in singles beating Imran Aswat and Julian Cash. Perhaps a bit like Lloyd Glasspool in that there was plenty of potential for growth in college tennis as relative lack of opportunity as a junior.

So North Florida played a blinder recruiting him ..... his college career within the context of rhe ASUN was Stella and he was relevant nationally but opportunities restricted in terms of a high rank as he was not in a power conference. Still N Floridas first ever all American getting to QF of NCAA singles.

It will be very interesting to see where futures takes him but I can never see him being short of a doubles partner.